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Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, this book sheds light on what has been called the tinderbox of Europe, whose troubles have ignited wider wars for hundreds of years.

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A dazzling short history of the Balkans from the Romans to the present, which provides vital historical and cultural background to contemporary Balkan politics. At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe ...

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The compelling and provocative history of world government, from acclaimed author Mark MazowerShortlisted for the RUSI 2013 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military LiteratureIn 1815 the shocked and exhausted victors of the decades of fighting that h...

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From award-winning historian Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world order for mankind. The end of the First World W...

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Är det omöjligt för européer från skilda kulturer att leva tillsammans i demokratiska stater? Sedan de mångkulturella imperierna - det habsburgska, det ottomanska - föll sönder efter första världskriget, har européerna inte lyckats skapa några sta...

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The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and hor...

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Please note that this edition does not include illustrations.The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Naz...

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Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire is a provocative account of the rise and fall of Nazi Europe by one of Britain's leading historians. Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history....

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The powerful, disturbing history of Nazi Europe by Mark Mazower, one of Britain's leading historians and bestselling author of Dark Continent and Governing the World Hitler's Empire charts the landscape of the Nazi imperial imagination - from thos...

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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series A crime novelist has found the perfect subject - but it may cost him his life English writer Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when a police inspector tells him about the infamous master ...

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WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject in English for many decades to come&apo...

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WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 ''Deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject in English for many decades to come'' Roder...

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SHORLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Brilliant ... a staggering story' Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 'Fascinating, vast and rich ... a dramatic family memo...

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From award-winning historian Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe''s Twentieth Century retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world order for mankind. The end of the First World War s...

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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • One of The Economist's top history book of the year From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of Independence-the ultimate worldwide liberal cause célèbre of the age of Byr...

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The great depression of the inter-war years was the most profound shock ever to strike the world economy, and is widely held to have led directly to the collapse of parliamentary democracy in many countries. This scholarly study of Greece in the p...

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This collection offers new insights into the aftermath of the Second World War. Contributors explore key arenas, such as the the re-foundation of the state, its legitimacy and its monopoly of armed force, the legacies of empire, the treatment of d...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 ''Brilliant ... a staggering story'' Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year ''Fascinating, vast and rich ... a dramatic family memoir'' Guardi...

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Brought to you by Penguin.English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector Colonel Haki. It is from him that he first hears of the mysterious Dimitrios - an infamous master...

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This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. The first full account of the experience of occupation, it offers a vividly human picture of re...

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"A useful, important book that reminds us, at the right time, how hard [European unity] has been, and how much care must be taken to avoid the terrible old temptations." --"Los Angeles Times <BR>Dark Continent provides an alte...

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This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled--bloodily...

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No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popul...

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A groundbreaking interpretation of the intellectual origins of the United NationsNo Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in t...

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This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled--bloodily...

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The role of the police has, from its beginnings, been ambiguous, even janus-faced. This volume focuses on one of its controversial aspects by showing how the police have been utilized in the past by regimes in Europe, the USA and the British Empir...

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A warm, insightful memoir by an acclaimed historian that explores the struggles of twentieth-century Europe through the lives and hopes of a single family-his own Following his relatives' remarkable stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices an...

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Designed to respond to the general public's interest in the Balkans, this book explores the historical roots of current conflicts and social and political developments. Beginning with the emergence of nation-states in the 19th century, it takes th...

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Die groÿe Gesamtdarstellung Griechenlands im Zweiten Weltkrieg und der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Folgen der brutalen deutschen Besatzung. Von dem bekannten und vielfach ausgezeichneten Historiker Mark Mazower, Autor des Bestsellers ?Hitl...

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Europa im Jahr 1942: Hitler kontrollierte eine Landmasse, die größer als die USA, dichter besiedelt und wirtschaftlich produktiver als jede andere war. Das Ziel der Nationalsozialisten, "Herren in Europa" zu werden, schien nahezu erreich...

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